What is the main difference between AEQI and Naïve?

Naïve is a catalog of 53 primitives — formation, payments, compute, content — that developers assemble into an agent-run business through a CLI or API. AEQI launches the assembled Company from one sentence: a staffed team, a live website, and memory, with the runtime underneath rather than in front.

How does Naïve's pricing compare to AEQI's?

As of September 2026, Naïve charges $20 a month per organization plus metered usage, and $349 to form a US LLC. AEQI charges flat plans of €50 to €800 a month per Company, covering 1 to 16 seats, with a 3-day trial.

Who should choose Naïve over AEQI?

A developer who wants to choose their own primitives and assemble a bespoke agent-run business, or who specifically needs a US LLC formed with a registered agent and EIN. Naïve is built for that assembly work.

AEQI vs Naïve

Choose Naïve if you are a developer who wants to assemble an agent-run business yourself from primitives — legal formation, payments, compute, browser automation — and you already think in APIs, CLIs, and org charts you build by hand.

Choose AEQI if you want a working Company today, staffed, remembering, and running, without assembling it from parts first, and you would rather describe what you want than wire it together yourself.

What Naïve is

Naïve describes itself as “infrastructure that lets agents autonomously operate businesses,” as stated on usenaive.ai in September 2026: a catalog of 53 primitives spanning formation, KYC, cards, and compute, reached through a CLI, an API, and a dashboard called Studio. It is made by Naïve, a Palo Alto company founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax that raised a $28.5 million Series A in August 2026. The unit of the product is an organization, not a seat. As of September 2026, the Pro plan is $20 a month per organization with a $20 monthly credit included, then metered pay-as-you-go beyond that; a Custom plan covers committed volume. Forming a US LLC through the platform costs $349.

Side by side

Question	Naïve	AEQI
Who it's for	Developers who want to assemble an agent-run business from primitives themselves	Founders who want a working Company today, not a parts catalog to build one from
Where it lives	A CLI, a REST API, an SDK, and a web dashboard called Studio	A Company with its own live website, staffed departments, and a server provisioned for you
Agents and roles	Agents you compose yourself from 53 primitives across runtime, identity, money, and content	Ten officer agents in named roles: CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CRO, CPO, Chief of Staff, General Counsel, and Founder's Associate
Memory	Sessions and structured outputs per agent; no shared institutional memory across the organization	A shared memory of mail, decisions, and quests that every agent reads and adds to
Channels	CLI, REST API, SDK, and Studio; no inbox or messaging channels	Email, Slack, Teams, Telegram, and WhatsApp, plus API, MCP, and CLI
Hosting and data	Not published	One hosted Company per customer, on its own server in Germany, with EU data residency
Pricing	$20 a month per organization plus metered usage; LLC formation is $349	€50, €200, or €800 a month per Company for 1, 4, or 16 seats; annual is 2 months free
Trial	7-day free trial	3 days free; founding offer takes 33% off Personal's first 3 months through 31 October 2026
Best for	Developers assembling a bespoke agent-run business from parts	Founders who want the company already assembled and working

Naïve is the better choice when

You think in systems and APIs and want to choose your own primitives — LLC formation, KYC, cards, compute — rather than accept whatever a packaged Company ships with, and you enjoy wiring the pieces together yourself, picking exactly which of the 53 primitives your business actually needs and leaving the rest unused.
You need a real US LLC formed for an agent-run business, with a registered agent and an EIN filed alongside it, and you would rather pay $349 once for that filing through the platform than search for a separate formation service and wire the result back in by hand.
You want metered, pay-as-you-go pricing scoped to an organization rather than a seat count, and $20 a month with credit included is enough runway to find out whether your idea needs more before committing to a bigger plan or a committed-volume contract.

AEQI is the better choice when

You want a Company today, not a parts catalog: one sentence launches a live website, a staffed team, and work already moving, instead of a CLI session spent choosing and wiring primitives together before anything you would call a business actually starts running.
You want the Company to remember: every decision, lesson, and draft compounds into a shared memory that every agent reads and adds to, instead of resetting between sessions the way discrete primitives tend to when nothing above them is keeping score.
You want named roles doing recognisable work — a CMO drafting the marketing plan, a CFO watching the runway, a General Counsel reading the contract — rather than a runtime you have to assemble the org chart into yourself before it does anything at all.
You want to reach your Company from your own inbox, Slack, or WhatsApp, not only through a CLI, an API key, and a dashboard built for developers who already know exactly what they are assembling, why, and in what order.

The difference in one sentence

Naïve sells the parts a developer assembles into an agent-run business; AEQI sells the business already assembled, staffed, and remembering what it has tried. One is a toolkit you build a company with; the other is the company already built from one, running and reporting from day one.

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Last verified 14 September 2026. Competitor facts are quoted from their public pages on that date.